Pat Passlof’s Abstraction Kept Evolving as New York and Its Art Scene Changed Around Her

Pat Passloff: AS-Brown, 1959, oil on linen, 50 by 58 inches.
What tangible or visible traces remain, apart from the surviving artworks sitting in museums or private collections, of the hundreds of thousands of artists who have resided in New York over the last century? As far as I can see, not very much. In most of the neighborhoods they once frequented, from SoHo to Williamsburg, studios have been converted into luxury residential units, or entire buildings that used to house artists have been